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Wildlife Gardening


Adding Purpose to your Garden Design
When designing gardens these days, especially wildlife gardens, we talk about mimicking a habitat. But it is challenging to translate a habitat type legibly and functionally, especially in small gardens. A woodland arrangement, for example, requires more than one tree to suggest woodland with its understory community of shrubs, perennials, bulbs, grasses, and groundcovers.
Anno Torr
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Plant List for the Wildflower Grassland
Plant list for the wildflower grassland
Anno Torr
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Design a Rockery for year-round interest
Do you have a slope or bank ready to be dressed more creatively than the default retaining wall blocks or mown lawn? An eye-catching cocktail dress rather than a comfortable pair of jeans; a brightly coloured pashmina to replace a worn monotone windbreaker? Aside from adding a beautiful feature, this style detail/ element increases the sustainability of the garden too, for it saves on lawnmower fuel, provides level planting pockets for better water penetration, and provides h
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CAPE COVERS
There is never a good time for a garden to be without a comprehensive cover of foliage blanketing the ground. Whether faced with a cold winter, fierce summer sun, drought, wind, or torrential rains, the right plant cover can keep the garden intact, and add beauty and year-round interest while performing these duties.
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Shelterbelts for Western Cape Gardens
With howling winds and salt-laden air a fact of gardening life along the Western Cape coast, it is essential to grow a shelter belt before planting the more tender plant types - without it, gardening here is almost impossible!
Anno Torr
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Autumn Butterfly Foods
By Anno Torr In the east of the country, the still warm, and increasingly drier days of April and provide perfect flying conditions for...
Anno Torr
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From Humdrum to Vibrant
By Jenny Dean A large part of my work is creating gardens within secure gated estates. Residents are only allowed to plant indigenous...
Anno Torr
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The Autumn Garden: How to help wildlife survive winter
By Anno Torr Leaves are falling, summer rains are on the wane, winter rains are inching closer, and the nights are longer – welcome to...
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Autumn Fruits to feed the Birds
The autumn months are a crucial time for our fruit-eating birds, and they’ll be on the hunt for ripe berries and fruits before supplies...
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Set your African Garden Ablaze
Mention the word succulent, and many people envision a desert -like design. Not so! The garden pictured here is alight with color year roun
By Jenny Dean
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Top 10 Bird Plants
From grasses, shrubs and trees, these are the best plants to attract birds to your garden.
Charles Botha- published in The Indigenous
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The Future of Gardening
“There is no clearer illustration of the extent of human dominance of the Earth than the fact that maintaining the diversity of ‘wild’...
Anno Torr
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Nature's Paintbox
Senecio barbertonicus creates height at the top of the bank. A small to medium size shrub with a neatly rounded shape it has bright green n
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